This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...waist in Marcia's absence. "' Don't' for 'does n't!' Hester Stanley knows too much to make that mistake." "Girls, say!" cried Fanny. "Why is Hester Stanley like one of the parts of speech?" "Because she's up in grammar, because she 'a an indefinite article, because she declines to speak--" "You don't decline 'to speak, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...waist in Marcia's absence. "' Don't' for 'does n't!' Hester Stanley knows too much to make that mistake." "Girls, say!" cried Fanny. "Why is Hester Stanley like one of the parts of speech?" "Because she's up in grammar, because she 'a an indefinite article, because she declines to speak--" "You don't decline 'to speak, ' you conjugate it." "Because she's in the imperfect then, or because she's a proper noun, third person, very singular, or--" "You 're not up in grammar, any way, Fanny Doane, and I don't believe you can tell the answer yourself! I say, girls, why is Fanny Doane like 'shoofly'?" "Because she bothers?" "Because she's always in the vocative." "Dear me, how learned! Horrida Bella! We talk Latin, dress in satin, and fry pound cake for luncheon--" "'T is not so nice," sang Bessy, joining in, "as water-ice, but does quite well to munch on." "Well, tell me this," cried Charlotte. "Why is Miss Brown like a mathematical point? Give it-up? Because she has position, but not magnitude!" Unanimity of opinion on this subject restored harmony; but, under cover of the sparring, Hester had slipped away, only to meet a fresh swarm in another place, however. "How thankful I ought to be," said one little piece, "that I was born in a civilized country and not among cannibals. I might have been just such a little fuwy, as Miss Brown says." "You haven't such great cause for gratitude, after all, then," said Marcia, as she walked up and down conning her Psalm. "It's fortunate for you, March, that you are not obliged to do penance by holding your tongue; you'd burst! Tell us, are they Catholics, ...
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